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The American block against learning languages is about to be assaulted by a couple of almost irresistible invitations to speak French. Due soon on U.S. TV screens are two sets of language teaching films, both particularly strong on the femine gender. In one series the teacher is trim Actress-Playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Actress Mauban's show was produced by the French government's RTF (Radio-diffusion Télévision Français). In 39 quarter-hour episodes, titled Les Français Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Scholarly as well as sprightly, the shows constantly match language to life. Dawn Addams brandishes a sandwich to explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Unlike foreign movies. RTF's show has no problem dubbing in foreign speakers to translate for Actress Mauban. An off camera voice asks questions in the language of each country; she answers in French, keeps the teaching as "direct"' as possible. Dawn Addams' English has to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

In the middle of this blot, Holtzman and colleagues see a sumo wrestler. A subject who sees a fat devil flanked by two thin ones would have little to worry about. But the interpretation, "A fat cannibal king with two pregnant women," says Holtzman, "is rich with hostility toward women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reaching Beyond Rorschach | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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